linux-kernel - Re: [BUG?] kernel OOPS at kmem_cache_alloc_node() because of smp_processor

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1510150935171.21270@east.gentwo.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:39:17 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	"Gonglei (Arei)" <arei.gonglei@...wei.com>
cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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	"rientjes@...gle.com" <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Lizefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
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	"paulus@...ba.org" <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>, "bp@...e.de" <bp@...e.de>,
	"boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com" <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] kernel OOPS at kmem_cache_alloc_node() because of
 smp_processor_id()

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:

> [    0.016000] Call Trace:
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff810061dc>] dump_trace+0x6c/0x2d0
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff81394288>] dump_stack+0x69/0x71
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff81394308>] panic+0x78/0x199
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff81050fff>] do_exit+0x26f/0x360
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff813980a1>] oops_end+0xe1/0xf0
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff8102d955>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x155/0x230
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff813972ef>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff810ed93f>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xbf/0x140
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff811dc176>] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x16/0x70
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff81019888>] native_send_call_func_ipi+0x18/0xf0
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff810783ee>] smp_call_function_many+0x1ae/0x250
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff810784b0>] smp_call_function+0x20/0x30
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff8101580a>] set_mtrr+0x5a/0x140
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff8138ef17>] smp_callin+0xf0/0x1b4
> [    0.016000]  [<ffffffff8138efe9>] start_secondary+0xe/0xb5

This happened during IPI processing?

> crash> p cache_cache

Arg. This is the SLAB allocator. You cannot enable debugging without
rebuilding the kernel with CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG.

> smp_processor_id() return 14, the CPU14, but the CPU14 is *stuck*, so cache=
> p->array[14] is NULL,
> why did this situation happen? And cause NULL pointer accessing? Is this a =
> kernel bug?

Its likely a bug in some obscure code in a driver that corrupted memory or
messed up the way memory was handled. set_mtrr()? What was going on at the
time? A special graphics driver being loaded? That could cause issues.

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